Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-19
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an hour and then mustered up courage enough
TO ask if the loser couldn't split the difference
on the IS and make the reward 1927 80.
A GLASGOW MERCHANT has expressed de-
| sire TO present to the Queen, as Jubilee gift
tive-toD cheese, made from the milk of 6,S0(
| Canadian cows. The Queen has declined the
GIT, While expressing appreciation OF the
kind and loyal motive which dictated the
offer.
THE students of the University OF Pennsyl-
vania have adopted the mortar board CAP
and black gown Of Oxford because it is sc
decidedly English, doncherknow." The big
pockets in the gowns are found to be very con
venient Tor hiding notes and extracted book
pages on examination days.
DIR. KovALEFFsKI, a very wise Russian doc
tor, tells trightful stories Of the number OF
lunatics in his country. There is room for
only 10000 IN the asylumns and there they are
brutaly treated. About 3d. 0o roam about at
large without any care. They are to be met
on all the country roads and they avenge i'll
usage by manning little children.
IN his earlier years the late Prof. E. L.
Youmans was very fond of rare roast beef,
but on one occasion Prof, AgassiZ told him
that trichin9 were as liable to be found in
beef as in pork, ana that the only way to avoid
the risk OF eating them was to have ones meat
thoroughly cooked. Always afterward Prof:
Youmans insisted upon having his beef well
done"
WHEN Lincoln ran for Congress some Of the
Wings contributed purse of 5000 to pay his
personal expenses in the canvass. After the
election was over the successful candidate
handed back $l99 Is. ~ did not need It," he
said. 81 made the canvass on my own horse !;
my entertainment being at the houses OF
friends cost me nothing. and my only outlay
was 75c. for barrel of cider, which some
farm hands insisted should treat them to"
THE Paris reports that the drummers and
trumpeters of the German army are hard at
work learning the beats and calls of the
French troops. 1t also alleges that in many
engagements in the war of 1870 the comm a nd
TO cease firing was often given to the French
infantry by German buglers, and that the
command to halt, sounded by the same bug
lers, often stopped charge Of French caval-
ry and placed them in position where they
could be moved down.
POLICE CAPTAIN MCCULLoGH, of New
York. an expert in the opium vice, Is fire.
quently deceived by the resemblance between
pipe hitters and cigarette smokers. "Ciga-
rette smokers are so like opium smokers" he
says, that they have even the peculiar odor
OF the pipe hitters. They also have the same
dry and ruddy cheeks. the same parched lips,
and the same habit of constantly wetting
their lips with their tongues" The captain
thinks there must be great deal Of opium in
cigarettes.
Two butchers of Paris nave outdone Lean
der, who swan the Hellespont. A few nights
ago, when the cold was piercing, the two men
plunged for a wager against time into the
Seine from the Clichy bridge, and swan
round an island. This extraordinary per-
Torrance occupied fifty-seven minutes, the
time limit having been sixty. The half
frozen swimmers won ESQ each, the total
amounts dependingon the result being e., 900.
One OF the butchers has been Ill In bed ever
since the accomplishment of his feat Of en-
UnraQGp. bnt the other ia {
CHAPLAIN ALLISON, of the Minnesota Legis-
lature, prayed one morning: land now, dear
Lord, bless the reporters, whose nimble pens
catch our every word almost before it is ut
tered. Like thyself, they are Omni- present,
and almost omnip0tent. II we take the wings
of the morning and fly to the uttermost parts
of the earth, they are there. They meet us in
the jungles of Africa, they waylay us in the
solitary canyons of Colorado, and when at
length we find the latitude of the magnetic
pole. behold they are there. May their light
and goodness be equal to their power, and in
the general assembly of heaven let no repor-
ter be excluded"
THERE is in Philadelphia a citizen who used
to be hard drinker, but now shoulders at the
thought of whisky. He thus tells of his cure;
''After l drank so much that 1 became a
nuisance to my wife she tried the whisky
cure. In the home where she put me they
poured whisky over the meat we ate, the po-
tatoes, the fish, the salads, the peas. butter
and tomatoes There was whisky in our
coffee, our soup, our milk, our drinking water
and the water we washed in. We went to
bed after eating veal stuffed with whisky,
and got up to clean our teeth with whisky and
water aud enjoy the day on breakfast
soaked in milk and whisky. / stood it for a
month. Unadulterated water is good enough
for me-"
A CELEBRATED man not long since received
a just rebuke. A lecturer stated that the
aFo
Hamlin, by the way-knew how to makt a
most excellent cup of coffee, A respectable
minister wrote to him asking for the receipt.
His request was granted. but at the bottom OF
the letter was the following manifestation of
stupendous conceit: 81 hope that this is a
genuine request and not a surreptitious mode
OF securing my autograph" to which the
minister replied: "Accept my thanks for the
receipt for making coffee; / wrote in good
faith, and in order to convince you of that
fact allow me to return what you obviously
infinitely prize. nut which is of no value to
me, your autograph"
The truck horses at the fire headquarters
in Detroit are said to have developed the
wonderful faculty of distinguishing between
the two telephone bells In the truck house
One of the two telephones is for communica-
ton between the different houses, and the
other is a regular line connecting with the
telephone exchange, over which notice OF a
fire is occasionally sent The horses pay no
attention TO the bell ON the private telephone,
but when the regular telephone rings thew
prick up their ears and listen, and at night
the ringing of the bell will bring them to their
feet The difference in the tone OF the two
bells is but slight, and the 1remen themselves
cannot always tell without looking which bell
rings.
A CURIOUS CHARGE is brought against
Henri Rochefort. While the persons who en-
abied the Communist Marquis to escape from
New Caledonia are at the present time Minis
tiers and Deputies. the bargee who owned the
boat In which Rochef0rt reached the Ameri-
can ship that took him TO san Francisco in
1874, together with his friends Paschal Grous-
set, Olivier Pain, Jourdo and another, Is the
struggling landlord of "A small hotel in Aus
tralia, and he has never been paid for the use
OF his boat on that memorable occasion. The
bargee was punished by expulsion from New
Caledonia. He accordingly went to Aus
tralia, but beng ignorant OF English mad
good deal OF trouble in getting on. He is now
in Paris, and intends to see M. Rochefort about
the payment for the loan OF the boat as soon
as possible.
The Rochester Union Gays that Hiram sib-
ley, that city, is the best hog guesser In west
ern New York, and proves 1t by telling how
he once visited q farm where hog had Just
been killed, and was asked to guess on its
weight. After due elaboration and estimA-
ton he said slowly: THAT hog weighs exact
ly Northumberland ixty-one-pounds-
and-a-quarter." The hog was placed upon
the scales. 1t weighed 26lz-half ponnd
over Mr.. Sibley's guess! He was thoroughly
disgusted. and SAID: "HOw could have been
70 much Mistaken" Presently his ewes
lighted up with triumph. AS he detected a